Lawn-swing.



M. D. MI'BS'NER'.

LAWN SWING.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 10,1913.

Patented Feb. 16, 1915.

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M. D. MIESNER.

LAWN SWING.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 10, 1913.

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MARTIN D. MIESNER, OF .ALTENBURG, MISSOURI.

LAWN-SWING.

Application filed May 10, 1913.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MARTIN D. MIEsNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Altenburg, in the county of Perry and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lawn-Swings; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to swings and more particularly to that class known as lawn swings.

The general object of the invention is to provide an improved lawn swing of that class having opposed seats in the form of rockers, connected by a central floor or platform and mounted in a frame in such manner as to give both a rocking and a swinging motion to each rocker seat while the swing is in motion.

A special object of the invention is to provide an improved swing of this charac ter, in which the seats may be readily disconnected from the framework and em ployed as ordinary porch or house rockers, when it is desired to discontinue the use of the device as a lawn swing.

A further object of the invention is to generally improve this class of swings with a view to simplicity and economy of construction, facility of operation, and nonliability of disarrangement or breakage of the parts with ordinary usage.

With these objects in view the invention consists in the improved construction, arrangement and combination of parts of a deviceof the character specified, which will be hereinafter fully described and afterward specifically claimed.

In order that its construction and operation may be readily comprehended, I will now proceed to specifically and fully describe my invention in connection with the accompanying drawings which illustrate an approved embodiment thereof, in which drawings,

Figure 1 represents the complete double lawn swing in side elevation; Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal vertical sectional view of one end portion of the supporting stand, showing the spring hangers for one of the chairs; Fig. 3 represents a horizontal sectional view, looking downward, on the plane indicated by the broken line 3-3, of Fig.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 16, 1915,

Serial No. 766,745.

1, one half of the chair being broken away; Fig. 1 represents one of my improved boxes or blocks in which the spring hangers for the chairs are hung; Fig. 5 represents the same in plan view; Fig. 6 represents a transverse, vertical sectional view on the plane indicated by the broken line 6-6 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 7 represents a longitudinal vertical sectional view on the plane indicated by the broken line 7"? of Fig. 6.

Like reference characters mark the same parts in all of the figures of the drawings.

Referring specifically to the drawings 10, 10 indicate a pair of parallel longitudinal bars adapted to rest upon the ground, floor or other support, and connected near their outer ends by cross bars 11, 11.

12, 12 indicate horizontal parallel bars above each end portion of the bars 10 connected to each other by cross bars 13,13 and supported above said bars 10 by diagonally arranged crossed bars 141, 15, bars 1 1- being connected at their upper and lower ends to the inner sides of bars 12 and 10, and the bars 15 to the outer sides of said bars 12 and 10, and the bars 14 and 15 at their crossing points by cross rods, as at 16. The bars 12 are extended outwardly as at 17 to form handles by means of which the swing may be moved from place to place when desired, and such handle bars form the supports for a rocking or oscillating chair at each end of the framework.

Each chair comprises a seat 18, arms 19, rockers 20, uprights or legs 21 secured at their lower ends to the rockers 20, at intermediate points to the seat 18 and at their upper ends to the arms 19, and a back 22 pivoted to the seat. On the arms, facing inward are racks 23, in this instance forming one of the walls of slots 24. Handles 25 are pivoted at 26 to the sides of the seats and pass upward through the slots 24c, being connected by pivoted links 27 to the back.

The handles are made of any suitable elastic material and are so mounted that they are normally held by their elasticity in engagement with the teeth of the racks 23.

On the upper edges of the bars 12 boxes or blocks 28 are secured by screws or bolts passing through openings 29 into said bars 12, such boxes being provided in their upper faces with grooves 30 in which are received the main body portions 31 of spring hangers which hangers at each end are bent downward, as at 38, and at their lower ends,

as at 34, outward, said lower ends engaging in openings 32 in the inner faces of the rockers, saidv hangers being of proper dimensions, horizontally, from end to end, to require that they be bent inward to insert their ends in the openings in the rockers, whereby their elasticity retains them in position.

The boxes are of special construction, as illustrated. in Figs. 4 and 5, horizontal grooves 35 being formed at one side of the grooves 30 by undercutting into projections 36, said projections being extended at 37 near one edge of each box toward said grooves 30, forming stop lugs.

To the opposite direction from the groove 30 at 33 are pivoted latches 39, whose ends are rabbeted transversely forming tongues L0 adapted to move in the transverse grooves 30, while, when a latch has been turned to its working position, as in Fig. 5, the side of said latch will strike the extension 37 of the projection 36 and thus prevent the tongues lO from passing out of the groove 35, and retaining it in working position, the functions of the latches being to retain the spring hangers in the grooves 30.

The rockers 20 at their forward ends, as at 41, are connected by cross rods, upon which is mounted a platform 42 by means of notches straddling the cross rods 41, which platform forms detachable foot rests for the occupants of the chairs, and the connections of the rockers and platforms being pivotal, pressure of the feet upon the platforms will cause the chairs to rock forward.

If the connections between the bars 10 and 12 were vertical, the platform 42 would strike them very early in their return or backward movement on their hangers, but by inclin ing and crossing the connecting bars 14 and 15, space is provided to permit of greater backward movement, allowing the platform to move into the space between the crossed connecting bars, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 7

When it is desired to dismount the rock-- ing chairs in order to use them independently of the supporting frame so that they may rest upon their own rockers, it is only necessary to lift off the platform and spring the ends of the hangers out of the openings of the rockers, when the chairs may be lifted out of the frames, leaving the hangers swinging in the boxes, and when it is desired to store the parts, the hangers may be removed from the boxes by swinging the latches aside.

In order to adjust the inclination of the backs of the chairs, either when in use in the swing or independently, the occupant has only to grasp the handles 23, and press them inwardly out of engagement with the teeth of the racks 23, when he may move them either forward or backward at will to raise or lower the back on its pivot, and, owing to the elasticity of the handles, they will immediately reengage the teeth of the racks upon their release from inward pressure.

While I have specifically described the construction and operation of the several elements embodied in my invention, I deside it to be understood that slight changes and variations may be made the-rein, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is,

1. The combination in a lawn swing of a supporting frame comprising lower horizontal parallel base bars extending the whole length of the frame and upper horizontal parallel bars above the end portions of the base bars, of opposite inwardly facing chairs having rockers and swung upon said upper parallel bars and outside of the frame, a foot platform pivoted to and connecting the forward ends of the rockers of the chairs, and crossed bars opposite the ends of the foot platform and connecting the base bars with each set of upper parallel bars of the frame, affording a firm support for the upper bars and additional space for the foot platform in the backward swinging of the chairs.

2. The combination in a lawn swing, of a supporting frame having upper horizontal parallel bars, rocking chairs hung over said frames and having openings in the inner sides of their rockers, blocks secured upon said bars and having transverse grooves, hangers comprising horizontal central portions resting in said grooves and depending ends engaged in the openings in the inner faces of the rockers of the chairs, and pivoted latches on the blocks adapted to be turned in the position to cover and secure the hangers in the grooves of the blocks, said blocks being provided with under-cut grooves and stop extensions, and said latches having tongues at their ends to engage and work in said under-cut grooves, said tongues being adapted to engage said extensions to stop the latches in operative positions.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MARTIN D. MIESNER.

"Witnesses:

MARTIN J. SEIBEL, OTTO J. HEMMANN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

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